Slow Life Fast Bike

03/08/2025

Bumped into an old friend in the desert today. Friends, meet donkey! Funny thing is I remember it feeling like a big challenge to get to it last year. This year it was easy peasy. Progress is amazing! 💪

02/09/2025

What's your favourite place to hide out?

Right now it's the desert for me. Job hunting sucks and it feels like so much is going on in the world at the moment. It all makes me grateful for the ability to be some place warm and remote these days.

02/02/2025

It's that time of the year.. playing in the desert for a while! It's my favourite part of the winter season and I'm excited to feel the improvements I'm making since last year.

Don't forget you can get Cardo discounts with code "slowlifefastbike"!

12/25/2024

Feeling festive! How's your 25th December going?

I'm walking off one meal to make room for the next one. Beautiful day here in Texas after the thunderstorms last night.

08/30/2024

Had to get a pic with the big sign at . This place is such a fun off-road park to visit. Sand, hills, gravel, wooded trails, puddles to play in just 5 minutes from the campground. Heaven!

08/14/2024

It's been quiet on the western front, but still alive and kicking over here.

Passed through South Dakota recently but missed out on the touristy stuff and canyon rides. That's the thing about RV life, some times adulting takes priority and there isn't time or mental bandwidth to do things. That's okay, I'll be back for you South Dakota!

07/13/2024

Ever wondered what it's like inside our Super-C RV? Now's your chance.. I just posted a tour video on YouTube!

In this episode I show you around our Renegade Verona LE Super-C motorhome. I filmed this a week after we moved in, so be sure to subscribe for future update...

07/03/2024

MRA endurance race at High Plains Raceway in Colorado; an overdue update!

Within a 48 hour period over Thurs and Fri:
Plan A was an sv650, but it died and despite much effort to source parts it wasn't happening.
Plan B was a cbr600rr, but it was unhappy and overheating.
Plan C involved one of the guys buying an 05’ cbr600rr that was for sale locally.

Plan C turned out to be a gem of a bike once it was prepped and ready to go. It did great in practice on Friday. I was nervous riding a new-to-me bike. I'm so used to my rs660 twin and 600s are a totally different experience. But once I got used to it, I had a blast riding it. Sounded amazing too!

Race day, Sat: I felt great after settling my nerves in practice in the morning. I was rider two. First rider went out strong, but had a crash because of fuel getting on the rear wheel. Rider was okay and bike was okay after a crazy pit lane repair to replace a rearset and the rear master cylinder. At this point it was unclear to me what caused the fuel leak issue. I made a really difficult call to bow out; for safety and to respect a promise I made to myself and my family to evaluate risk appropriately in chaotic moments. Our remaining two riders finished out the race with no issues. They did AMAZING! So proud of them. We placed 19th out of 28 teams. Not bad considering the setbacks!

Afterwards the conclusion seemed to be that the fuel overflow wasn't piping into the belly pan correctly and it wasn’t an issue with the bike itself. I could have ridden just fine, but that's hindsight for you. I made a call and stuck to it, and at least the consequence was just me feeling sad and disappointed, and not anyone getting hurt. I can live with that.

Endurance racing is fun!

04/26/2024

KTM sumo conversion is underway!

I have a dual sport so that I can ride on dirt and street/track. I finally got my gorgeous wheels on. Still have a few things to trim for everything to fit perfectly but it's already looking so 🔥🔥🔥

These wheels will never be this clean again haha